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Forests : the shadow of civilization /
"As Western civilization cleared its space in the midst of the forests, it projected into the sylvan darkness its secret and innermost anxieties; in the forest's shadow we find enchantment, terror, and irony. In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Rober...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- First the forests. Vico's giants ; The Demon of Gilgamesh ; The Virgin goddess ; Dionysos ; The Sorrows of Rhea Silvia ; From mythic origins to deforestation
- Shadows of law. The Knight's adventure ; Forest law ; Outlaws ; Dante's Line of error ; Shadows of love ; The human age ; Macbeth's conclusion
- Enlightenment. The ways of method ; What is enlightenment? A questiom for foresters ; Rousseau ; Conrad's brooding gloom ; Roquentin's nightmare ; Wastelands
- Forests of nostalgia. Forest and world in Wordsworth's poem ; The Brothers Grimm ; Forests of symbols ; Waiting for Dionysos
- Dwelling. The Elm tree ; London versus Epping Forest ; The woods of Walden ; Fallingwater ; Andrea Zonzotto
- Epilogue: The ecology of finitude.